Peter F. Hamilton quotes

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly. (Peter F. Hamilton)

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

Peter F. Hamilton

You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

Peter F. Hamilton

Sometimes you have to do what's wrong in order to do what's right.

Peter F. Hamilton

Joshua was the most dynamic lover she had ever known. Gentle and domineering; it was a lethal combination. If only he wasn't quite so ruthlessly mechanical about it. A little too much of his pleasure had come from seeing her lose all control. But then that was Joshua; unwilling to share... Joshua didn't trust people.

Peter F. Hamilton

Mockery; the righteousness of fools everywhere.

Peter F. Hamilton

Faith, Quinn mused, was a strange power. They had committed their lives to the sect, never questioning its gospels. Yet in all of that time, they had the reassurance of routine... The bedrock of every religion, that your God is a promise, never to be encountered in this life, this universe.

Peter F. Hamilton

The whole concept of salvation through belief offers strength to those who doubt themselves.

Peter F. Hamilton

Here there was only yourself; a soul buried alive. Nothing to comfort you but your own life. Screaming from the pain of the blows which battered him down might have stopped, but the internal scream of self-loathing could never cease.

Peter F. Hamilton

But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed.

Peter F. Hamilton

Like men in his position throughout history, Kingsley Pryor did nothing as events swept him to their conclusion; simply waiting and praying that a magical third option would spring from nowhere. (Peter F. Hamilton)

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

Peter F. Hamilton

The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.

Peter F. Hamilton

You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the defining characteristic of human civilization, the ability to manufacture something decent to wipe your ass on.

Peter F. Hamilton

How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

Peter F. Hamilton

Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

Peter F. Hamilton

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

Peter F. Hamilton

How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.

Peter F. Hamilton

This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.' 'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place.

Peter F. Hamilton